Forbes notices China's navy....

... is building up rapidly:

the single image below of a Shanghai shipyard shows nine newly constructed Chinese warships. China’s Navy, known as the PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy), is modernizing at an impressive rate. And on a vast scale. A key ingredient is the construction of a fleet of large destroyers, amphibious warships and aircraft carriers.

 It's almost like the west hasn't realized that industrial capacity is part of what wins major conflicts. Manpower, access to resources, and the ability to turn those resources into military assets. 

• Germany lost WW1 not because of defeat on the battle field, but because it ran out of resources (including food).
• Imperial Japan invaded various Asian countries to secure access to resources, including rubber. When it was cut off from those supplies, the war was effectively over.

Did the west really think that there were no consequences to outsourcing industrial production to Asia?

How long would it take the Chinese to move their economy to full military production mode, pumping out millions of tanks, rockets, drones, etc? How many metalworks, chemical processing plants, refineries, lathes, CNC machines, foundries (etc) are in China, awaiting work? Now how long would it take the USA or Germany?

I won't even mention that 50% of US and Canadian STEM PhD students are Chinese.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the USA, Canada and other western countries are ruled by a hostile, tribal elite that cares nothing for the citizenry. China, on the other hand, is run by highly intelligent (and often corrupt) people who are anxious to return the Middle Kingdom to its historical place in the order of nations.